Historical Marker

Fort Stanton

Historical marker location:
1600 Morris Road Southeast, Anacostia, District of Columbia
( Marker can be reached from Morris Road Southeast west of 16th Street Southeast, on the right when traveling west.)

Civil War Defenses of Washington. 1861 – 1865

Washington D.C. is a city of spooks, almost all of whom are powerful and wealthy.
Carl Bernstein in The Real-Life Washington, October 1977